Fables

Description

Title: Fables
Creator: Gay, John, 1685-1732
Contributor: Wootton, John, 1668?-1765.
Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773.
Tonson, Jacob, 1682-1735, bookseller.
Watts, John, -1763, bookseller.
Published / Created: 1727.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts
Description: BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 1: No. 1 of 2 works bound together with binder's title: Gay's Fables. Autographs of Walter Falk and Morley Hirsch.
BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 2: 26 cm. Armorial bookplate: John Holland.
BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 3: 25 cm. Bookplates of George Herbert Palmer and Chauncey Brewster Tinker.
BEIN Tinker 1069: 24 cm. Bound with his The beggar's opera. 3d ed. London, 1729] Imperfect: p.173 wanting. In manuscript on t.p.: "O.F. [i.e. Charles Ford] given me by Mr. Gay 1727."
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Z⁴ 2A².
Final p. blank.
Extent: [14], 173, [1] p. : 25 cm. (4to)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Material: ill. ;
Subjects: Ford, Charles > Presentation inscription from J. Gay
Gay, John, 1685-1732 > Presentation inscription to C. Ford
Falk, Walter > Autograph
Hirsch, Morley > Autograph
Palmer, George Herbert, 1842-1933 > Bookplate
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963 > Bookplate
Holland, John > Bookplate

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